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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Mediation over teacher's sacking 'successful' (photo)
Mediation between a Whangarei teacher - sacked for speaking out against what he called discriminatory comments by the principal of a Catholic school over gay marriage - and the school's board of trustees has concluded.
Rowing: McBride earns trial (photo)
Last week Kavanagh College pupil Zoe McBride (Otago) soaked up the sun at Purakaunui. Yesterday she turned the heat on her opponents at Lake Ruataniwha.
McBride (16) earned herself a national trial when she blasted away from her opponents at the South Island rowing championships.
Priests team up to spread the Word
Domino effect gives parish two new staff (photo)
A priest retiring in Greymouth has had a domino effect for Timaru, with Father Brian Fennessy and Father Chinnappa Thumma taking over as priests at the Holy Family Parish.
BJ'S farewell fills church (photo)
Rotorua Review
The wider Rotorua and Bay of Plenty community turned out en masse to farewell one of nature's good guys last week. Brendan John Devoy enjoyed a popularity usually reserved for public figures or those who have served their communities on a multitude of committees. Mr Devoy, who died recently aged 65, had a full life in a working environment in which it appeared he was omnipresent. He was generally known as BJ. Despite sharing a name with his celebrated sister, Dame Susan, Brendan Devoy was very much his own man.
Dancing Filipino tweets his way to the top in NZ
Sunday Star Times
A Filipino who records himself dancing in his bedroom is New Zealand's most- followed Tweeter – more popular with the ladies than sports star Sonny Bill Williams.
Paolo Feliciano, 20, has created a Justin Bieber-esque online persona by posting online love musings to his fans.
'Pressing business' in Kororareka-Russell
It's hard to imagine a more unlikely place than Kororareka-Russell as a centre for publishing. Yet in the early 1840s, Kororareka had become known for more than just its fleshly attractions ... "At times it must have felt that the Bay of Islands was awash with religious literature - from the Church Missionary Society, the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and later Bishop Pompallier's Marists who started producing Roman Catholic literature in 1838," says Kate Martin, the Manager of Pompallier Mission, the NZ Historic Places Trust property in Russell.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
'Great abundance'
A great catch: Luke 5: 1-11, a reading and commentary by Sister Stephanie Kitching
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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PODCASTS
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LIGHT OF THE WORLD - Otago Catholic Access Radio
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February 3 – Mary Eberstadt talks about her book, Adam and Eve After the Pill, and Melanie Kirkpatrick tells about the underground railroad for escapees from North Korea.
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SOUNDS CATHOLIC - Christchurch Catholic Radio
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February 10 2013
We feature a precious recording from St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland. Douglas Mews was a well known New Zealand composer, choir director, organist and associate professor of music at Auckland University.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
** If I just call this 'innovative', maybe people will buy into it…? (NFP in the developing world)
** Writers block for your praise and worship songs? (Video: how to write a worship song in 5 minutes or less)
** Year of Faith… ideas please! (what might a school do to mark the Year of Faith?)
** I'd be very grateful for any other ideas and thoughts.
** Inside Job (remuneration for church workers here and in the U.S.)
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC - John L. Allen Jr
Gomez, Mahony and the 'Sodano Rule'
I'm going to compare two fights among senior churchmen, but the purpose is not to suggest they're identical. Rather, it's to understand what makes them different.
The first term of comparison is the tension between Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles and his predecessor, Cardinal Roger Mahony. Behind door No. 2 lies the highly public spat in 2010 between Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, Austria, and Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a former Secretary of State and still the dean of the College of Cardinals...
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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PERIODICALS & NEWSLETTERS
'NZ Catholic' is a national newspaper published by the Catholic Bishop of Auckland.http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. 'Kete Korero'. http://proudtobecatholic.org.nz/news-events/kete-korero/
Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com' http://www.welcom.org.nz
Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform' http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25
Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. 'The Tablet' http://www.cdd.org.nz/the-tablet
The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report'http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/?sid=5
NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Lighting New Fires' http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resources/resources_lighting_new_fires.html
NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Good News and the News' http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resources/resources_good_news.html
Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger' http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East' http://www.columban.org.au/?MID=200510192652
'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine. http://www.tuimotu.org/articles
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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm http://livingtheword.org.nz
Reflect - Veronica Lawson rsm http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column) http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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FACEBOOK
Pompallier's People: The Catholic Church in Aotearoa New Zealand
Bishop Patrick Dunn
Catholic Discipleship College
Diocesan Young Catholics, Palmerston North
Youth and Young Adults Ministries, Christchurch
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NEWS OF THE CHURCH IN NZ AND THE WORLD
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (video news of Pope Benedict)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised on the Website of the Education Gazette:http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
[Job vacancies at the Archdiocese of Wellington are listed on http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/jobs ]
[Catholic overseas volunteer vacancies are listed on the Vacancies page of http://www.mahitahi.org ]
